Design Real-Time Architectures with Spark & Kafka
Completed by Nicole Wagner
June 10, 2026
3 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Examine core real-time data principles and how Kafka and Spark support streaming architectures.
Create real-time pipelines by connecting Kafka topics with Spark Structured Streaming.
Improve and deploy streaming systems using monitoring, fault tolerance, and tuning.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Data Transformation
- Category: Data Processing
- Category: Application Deployment
- Category: Performance Tuning
- Category: Performance Management
- Category: Distributed Computing
- Category: Software Architecture
- Category: Scalability
- Category: Data Pipelines
- Category: Event-Driven Programming
- Category: Systems Architecture
- Category: Apache Kafka
